The Irish Family
Type | conservative, religion-orientated |
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Format | weekly |
Owner(s) | Thomas Keaveney |
Publisher | Nation Communications and Media Ltd |
Editor | Lorcan Mac Mathúna |
Ceased publication | September 2008 |
Headquarters | Dublin |
The Irish Family (later The Irish Family Press) was an
It was founded as The Democrat in 1992 after the
Editor until early 2006 was Gerry McGeough, an IRA activist who until 2003 was on the Sinn Féin executive, and who had spent a number of years in prison for various arms offences.[1] He left to set up a new nationalist newspaper, The Hibernian. He was jailed in February 2011 for the shooting of an off-duty UDR soldier in 1981 and membership of the IRA.[citation needed] He was followed as editor by Lorcan Mac Mathuna, who had previously been associated with the anti-abortion movement Youth Defence.
The newspaper was not doing well financially. The company's accounts show it made a loss of €58,272 in the year ended 30 September 2005.[2] It announced in August 2008 that it was ceasing printing and would go online. However, an online version does not seem to have appeared.
References
- ^ "Behind the Mask: The Ira and Sinn Féin". Frontline. 11 October 1997. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "Trust believes in Irish Catholic". The Sunday Business Post. 6 May 2007. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2018.